1923

John Moore, as Chairman of the '23 Dutch Treat evenings at the Club in New York, pulled another one out of his sleeve as the Furious February Function. About 25 attended, including Woody Gauss, Kip Couch,Ellis Wilner, George Billings, Roy Height,Jim Landauer, Joe Schiffenhaus, Phil Jellison,Sam White, Brooks Palmer, Sol Levine, ClaryGoss, Charlie Rivoire, Ruel Smith, Bill Merchant, Irish Flanigan, Tom Norton, Ted Hellwig, John Moore, and Cap Palmer, on from the Coast, as guest. John says this is an incomplete list, put together from memory a couple of weeks afterward, and that a number of others were there who usually show up. Long-unseen Bill Merchant was a welcome member of the party, and he'll have to come around oftener now that we've got our hooks into him. John says of the evening....

"We cocktailed, we ate, we listened to a very interesting impromptu resume of Cap Palmer's career. It was brief and ultra modest and typical of the same swell guy we haven't seen for a long time but knew well in Hanover. Touching on his definite ideas of the value of educational films, Cap went on to outline the personalities of certain Hollywood characters (unnamed), and to give us an idea of the financial end of movie production. He shed a lot of light on the part which script writers play in converting a book or story from the literary to the visual understanding of the plot or moral intended. Cap also discussed the background of the recent Congressional investigations involving many Hollywood writers and other celebrities. As I look back upon Cap's talk I realize more fully how meaty it was. It was brief and modest (I repeat) but it certainly covered the highlights of Hollywood operations in a clear and interesting way."

John goes on to say, "Of course the evening had a topping-off and in that instance Sol Levine, Irish, Joe Schiffenhaus, Cap Palmer, a couple of others and I wound up the party."

E. G. "Dutch" Schmidt has just been appointed foundry superintendent of the Studebaker Corporation at South Bend, Ind., capping many years' successful experience in this highly technical branch of manufacturing. He was previously foundry superintendent at Allis-Chalmers and at International Harvester Company.

Sherm Baldwin, up to his ears in interviewing about 150 Dartmouth '52 candidates and preparing a Red Cross campaign, writes: "Baldy is keeping us in a state of complete dither with his all-too-accurate description of the 85-degree Southern California climate he's been basking in this winter. He's fine, and while we haven't seen him for 14 months his letters indicate that he's had a lot of fun mixed up in the usual Marine Corps routine. He '11 be discharged this summer in time to join the rest of those perfectly grand '23 sons in Hanover next fall."

To Sum Sollitt, Ward Hilton and JohnWyley, sincere thanks for their kindness in furnishing much of the information included in Don Moore's obituary notice in the Necrology pages of this issue.

Ward Hilton also writes: "The Annual Dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Chicago took place Friday, Feb. 6th at the University Club and there was an unusually large crowd of alumni and wives present. For the record, members of '23 attending were Metz Metzel, Sum Sollitt, Russ Carpenter,Dud Pope, Bud Freeman (from Racine, Wis.) and myself—all with wives: and singly, KarlWilliams (from Rockford), Joe Pick, BillJuergens, Bill Ryan, and Vic Short. It seems that most of these plan to be in Hanover in June."

Keep a weather eye on Irish Flanigan's Skiddo (as if you needed any urging!) for upto-the-minute Reunion plans, and ....

'23 UP FOR THE TERRIFIC TWENTY-FIFTH JUNE 11-12-13

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